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------------------ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Elsevier Publication)

Special Issue: Secure Self-Organised Networking Infrastructures for Extreme Emergency Services

Debates about emergency services usually diverge into discussions about most prominent catastrophes (e.g. earthquakes, flooding) and terrorist attacks. Such events tend to create a crisis and panic on the society. In such events, self-organized networking infrastructure (i.e. ad-hoc, wireless mesh) can be deployed in a secure and reliable manner in case of infrastructure network collapse so that an appropriate crisis handling management can be applied. This strategy coordinates all the available resources in terms of public services (i.e. police, authorities, hospital, fire-brigade etc) so that this crisis is resolved smoothly. While these extreme events surely represent some of the most demanding scenarios for emergency services, in order to fulfill the requirements of modern societies, research and development in the area of emergency services need to address a much broader scope. The handling of extreme emergency applications will often involve the establishment of self-organised networking environment in order to provide applications and services among the rescue workers.

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The aim of this special issue is to seek original and unpublished research papers in the following areas: - Self-Organised Network architectures (e.g. ad-hoc, mesh, PAN etc) for extreme emergency applications and services - Modeling and Simulation of Self-Organised Critical Infrastructures - Security protocols, solutions and tools for extreme emergency network architectures - Attacks and countermeasures for self-organised networks - Complex application scenarios - Service Continuity and Resiliency - Secure Multimedia Communications in Extreme Emergencies - P2P Overlay and Coordination Support - Standards and Initiatives for Emergency Networks and Applications (e.g. IEEE, IETF, etc)

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Authors should follow the Elsevier International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection manuscript format instructions as described at the journal’s site http://ees.elsevier.com/ijcip/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript in pdf format through the Elsevier portal http://ees.elsevier.com/ijcip/ by uploading their paper at the special issue track.

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Paper Submission Deadline: 30th of August 2009 Notification: 30th of January 2010 Publication Date: June 2010

------------------ Guest Editors ------------------ Ass. Prof. Tasos Dagiuklas, Department of Telecommunications Systems and Networks Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Mesolonghi, Nafpaktos, Greece Email: ntan@teimes.gr

Dr Christos Politis Wireless Multimedia Networking Research Group Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics Kingston University London, UK, E-mail: c.politis@kingston.ac.uk

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